"Why I write"

I liked this story. Even though it takes her a while to get to her point she still stated her thoughts about herself directly. She does not see herself as being a genius in what she has an interest in and she does not believe herself to be a good or bad writer. Just a writer.

When she tells the story about her college life and how she had to go to Sacramento to talk about the cosmology of "Paradise Lost," I was able to relate to her when she said that she could no longer recall the central question of the story but rather the ride there and all the unimportant details of the journey. I think we all have moments like that, where we cannot recall what we need, but rather the trivial moments that catch our eye.

She states that the arrangement of words matter to how we perceive the message. This is very true. Texting a friend, for example, you can say something to them and mean one thing, but depending on how you stated it they may take it in a completely different way.

"The picture tells you how to arrange words and the arrangement of the words tells you, or tells me, what is going on in the picture." The way she mean this may be different then how I took it, but when I read that I thought how true that was. Almost like when you want to say something, you know what you are talking about but you just can't seem to put it into words. The picture in your mind tells you what to say and how to say it, but it is up to you to put it into words so the other person can understand the picture.